By Bosse H.B. No. 2160
76R4313 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the certification of municipal police officers to
1-3 enforce commercial motor vehicle safety standards.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 644.101(b), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A police officer of any of the following municipalities
1-8 is eligible to apply for certification under this section:
1-9 (1) a municipality with a population of 100,000 or
1-10 more;
1-11 (2) a municipality with a population of 25,000 or more
1-12 any part of which is located in a county with a population of 2.4
1-13 million or more; [or]
1-14 (3) a municipality with a population of less than
1-15 25,000:
1-16 (A) any part of which is located in a county
1-17 with a population of 2.4 million; and
1-18 (B) that contains or is adjacent to an
1-19 international port; or
1-20 (4) a municipality any part of which is located in a
1-21 county bordering the United Mexican States.
1-22 SECTION 2. (a) In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
1-23 Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
1-24 enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
2-1 the text of Section 644.001(b), Transportation Code, as set out in
2-2 this Act, gives effect to changes made by Chapters 364 and 1061,
2-3 Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
2-4 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
2-5 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
2-6 relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted
2-7 codes.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.